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I did my own research... seems that Gorshkov competitor in India back in the late 90's was... old Clemenceau. Where it gets quite funny is that, only months before its retirement in July 1997, the Chinese tried to pull a Melbourne with the French"Yeah, give it to us, we will scrap it or turn it into an amusement park !" The French were no dupe and screwed any deal.The Chinese instead started a collection of Kievs (minus the scrapped one, and another escaped them and went to India) while the Chinese finally got the Kuznetsov unfinished brother that become Liaoning.Foch ended in Brazil and Clemenceau nearly went to India (the irony) for scrapping in 2006-2009... before environmentalists put France to shame and the miserable hull had to return to the "sender" (I remember the mess it was...!)
I did my own research... seems that Gorshkov competitor in India back in the late 90's was... old Clemenceau. Where it gets quite funny is that, only months before its retirement in July 1997, the Chinese tried to pull a Melbourne with the French
"Yeah, give it to us, we will scrap it or turn it into an amusement park !" The French were no dupe and screwed any deal.
The Chinese instead started a collection of Kievs (minus the scrapped one, and another escaped them and went to India) while the Chinese finally got the Kuznetsov unfinished brother that become Liaoning.
Foch ended in Brazil and Clemenceau nearly went to India (the irony) for scrapping in 2006-2009... before environmentalists put France to shame and the miserable hull had to return to the "sender" (I remember the mess it was...!)
